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1 Rupee - Abdur Rahman
| Issuer | Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1896 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting a stylized mosque with multiple minarets and a domed structure, representing the Great Mosque of Kabul, set within a wreath of olive branches tied at the base. A five-pointed star appears above the mosque in the upper field. The Arabic inscription denoting the mint name 'Kabul' appears to the right of the mosque, with the regnal year 1313 (AH) inscribed below the central device. A beaded border encircles the entire composition. |
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Abdur Rahman Khan spent much of his reign — from 1880 to 1901 — consolidating a fractured Afghanistan after the Second Anglo-Afghan War, playing British and Russian imperial ambitions against each other with remarkable calculation. His coinage was part of that project: a unified, standardized currency replacing the chaotic regional issues that had proliferated under weaker predecessors. The Kabul mint under his administration was brought under direct central control, a political act as much as an administrative one.
KM#813 is one of several rupee types attributed to his reign, distinguished by regnal year variants that remain inconsistently catalogued across major references.